LuLing Osofsky
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LuLing and the Waterfront |
LuLing Osofsky is a junior at Wesleyan University, triple majoring in Art History, Anthropology, and American Studies. At least one of those majors is going to get the boot before graduation. However, having already attended three universities before this one, it will be a feat worth celebrating if she manages to sit tight long enough to even graduate.
Annual trips to Hong Kong, to visit all the relatives on her mother’s side, accustomed LuLing at an early age to ridiculously long airplane flights. Nonetheless, traveling didn’t really metamorphosize into an addiction until she graduated from high school. She started off small, moving out to New York City to work, but plans got grander and eventually she was off to the “navel of the world” (That’s what Easter Island is called there — “Te Pito Te Henua”). While cynics have been known to characterize her penchant for ocean crossing as escapism, she sees it more as an opportunity to travel in the name of college education.
During her year off before college, LuLing lived on a commune in the jungle of the Big Island of Hawaii, and later returned to study on the island at University of Hawaii, at Hilo. She then studied at the commune’s opposite, the, at times, painfully posh and proper University of St.Andrews, in Scotland, for a year and a half. The standout of the past few years is probably having spent the summer of 2002 in Easter Island doing archaeology research in the field. However, working at a poetry circus in New Mexico the summer after was pretty surreal as well. But Easter Island is where the passion still burns, and if time ever permits, she’d like to devote herself entirely to preaching the unbelievable magnitude of the island’s rustic, enigmatic, majesty. In the meantime, she works two jobs to pay for candy and Iceland’s ridiculously expensive hostel prices. (One person, 50 bucks a night!! Robbery!)
